I really don't like whining about my husband, because 99% of the time he is awesome, and we are awesome, and he rocks my socks.
HOWEVER
If there was ONE thing that I do wish I could change about him, it would be that he can NOT give me a straight answer.
Example:
We were driving home the other night and out of the blue I asked him, "is this vow renewal ceremony something that you want to do?"
To me, this is a question requiring only a "yes" or "no" answer. And in fact, maybe I was searching for some support and encouragement... maybe something like "Yes, honey, I really want to do this too!" Because thus far I've not felt a ton of either from him.
We've talked about doing this since we actually got married, since we couldn't afford our wedding and had to get a courthouse hitch. "One day we'll have our ceremony".
This April is our 5th anniversary, and our good friend who will be performing the ceremony is deploying to Afghanistan later in April, and from what we understand it's supposed to be a pretty dangerous mission. I mean, what missions aren't dangerous, really, but on a scale of 1 to 10 this is supposed to be a 10.
So a couple of weeks ago I just decided we should just do it. Stop procrastinating, stop making excuses and just do something for ourselves that we've wanted to do for years.
I told him that, and he just said "OK".
So I asked him the other day if it really was what he wanted, and instead of "yes" or "no" what does he say?
"Isn't it a little late to be asking me this?"
To which I replied, "It's never too late. I haven't even got the invitations out yet."
You'd think he'd take that answer and then go back to the initial question and answer it, right?
NO.
He didn't.
Why would he do something like that?
No, instead he says, "Well you're doing it aren't you? And don't you think that if I didn't you wouldn't be doing it?"
OK, so yeah, that's KIND OF saying yes, but I seriously just wanted a straight answer. And I really want to know what I asked him next-
"I just want to know if you're going along with me becuase you really want to, or just because you want to make me happy."
His response?
"Of course I want to make you happy."
Soooo.. does that mean you're only going along with me because you want to make me happy and you don't really want to do this? So I ask,
"So you're only doing this with me to make me happy?"
Now he starts getting grumpy at my questions. And he comes off with something like "I just don't understand all these questions."
So I changed the subject. And I'm left feeling really frustrated and heartbroken because not only did I not get the support I was kind of looking for, I also didn't get any real answer at all.
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